DOI Heft:
No. 329 (August 1920)
DOI Artikel:Studio-Talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21401#0043
STUDIO-TALK
"A BOX AT THE THEATRE, PEKING"
FROM THE PAINTING BY ALEXANDRE
IACOVLEFF. (GRAFTON GALLERIES)
around the Metropolis, from Limehouse water-colours and drawings of China
in the east, to Kew Bridge and that and the Chinese by Mons. Alexandre
charming old riverside haunt, Strand-on- Iacovleff, a Russian artist. Here was
the-Green, in the west, and from Hamp- unfolded an unusually interesting
stead on the north to the Crystal Palace panorama of nature and life in the Far
and Epsom in the south. In these the East by an artist endowed with a remark-
artist has not been content to portray able capacity for seeing and a no less
merely the topographical aspect, but has remarkable power of recording what he
in most of his drawings, as in this one of has seen ; whether he is depicting a
the very heart of the old City, introduced lake scene, the Mongolian prairie, a
living elements which give animation and funeral procession, a devil dance, the
actuality to the subject depicted. 0 a interior of a theatre, shop, or tent, or
Simultaneously with Mr. Monk's any of the numerous types of humanity
exhibition some glimpses of a very he has encountered, he is never at any
different world were given at the Grafton loss in dealing with the subject. The
Galleries in an exhibition of paintings, definition alike in his paintings and
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"A BOX AT THE THEATRE, PEKING"
FROM THE PAINTING BY ALEXANDRE
IACOVLEFF. (GRAFTON GALLERIES)
around the Metropolis, from Limehouse water-colours and drawings of China
in the east, to Kew Bridge and that and the Chinese by Mons. Alexandre
charming old riverside haunt, Strand-on- Iacovleff, a Russian artist. Here was
the-Green, in the west, and from Hamp- unfolded an unusually interesting
stead on the north to the Crystal Palace panorama of nature and life in the Far
and Epsom in the south. In these the East by an artist endowed with a remark-
artist has not been content to portray able capacity for seeing and a no less
merely the topographical aspect, but has remarkable power of recording what he
in most of his drawings, as in this one of has seen ; whether he is depicting a
the very heart of the old City, introduced lake scene, the Mongolian prairie, a
living elements which give animation and funeral procession, a devil dance, the
actuality to the subject depicted. 0 a interior of a theatre, shop, or tent, or
Simultaneously with Mr. Monk's any of the numerous types of humanity
exhibition some glimpses of a very he has encountered, he is never at any
different world were given at the Grafton loss in dealing with the subject. The
Galleries in an exhibition of paintings, definition alike in his paintings and
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